outlive

«outlive» in Mova's school dictionary: To live longer than someone else — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (outlive, outlives, outlived, outliving)

meaning for a pupil

1) To live longer than someone else. tree →

2) To last longer than something, or to keep going after it has stopped being useful: «The rule has outlived its purpose». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons «tortoises can outlive their owners» shows how long some animals live. In family life it is about which person lives longer. Phrases: «outlive its usefulness».

examples

• Some tortoises outlive their owners. tree →
• Women often outlive men. tree →
• Grandma outlived all her brothers. tree →
• This old law has outlived its usefulness. tree →
• Trees can outlive the people who plant them. tree →
• She was old and bent then; for fifty years had passed and she had outlived them all. tree →

note

Regular verb. Prefix «out-» means «more than / longer than»: outlive, outrun, outgrow.

In the corpora

• Big parrots such as macaws and cockatoos can live over sixty years, so a pet parrot may outlive its owner.
• Some parrots live for over 60 years, so a pet parrot may outlive its owner.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «outlive» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.